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Iran to get new Russian air defences by '09 -Israel
Reuters ^ | Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:32am EDT | By Dan Williams

Posted on 07/23/2008 11:51:55 AM PDT by Perdogg

Iran is set to receive an advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft system by year-end that could help fend off any preemptive strikes against its nuclear facilities, senior Israeli defence sources said on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: armsbuildup; armstrade; geopolitics; iran; israel; proliferation; russia
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1 posted on 07/23/2008 11:51:55 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

see if they can catch me in my edsel

russians are just russians

ask me

of german russian descent


2 posted on 07/23/2008 11:58:17 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: Perdogg

Syria can sing a song about Russian Air Defenses.


3 posted on 07/23/2008 11:58:59 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: himno hero

“Could I have Russian dressing on my salad?”

“I’m rushing to get it!”


4 posted on 07/23/2008 11:59:27 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit!" Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Perdogg
B2

ROCK BEATS SCISSORS

5 posted on 07/23/2008 12:01:40 PM PDT by WilliamWallace1999
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To: Perdogg
"Like the ones Syria got?"


6 posted on 07/23/2008 12:01:51 PM PDT by avacado
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To: RexBeach

sorry,,,m’suir

cannot due

russian is finnish


7 posted on 07/23/2008 12:05:05 PM PDT by himno hero
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To: avacado

Great post! That’s what I was thinking about. “Russian Radar” - why not just have some goatherders throw rocks into the air.


8 posted on 07/23/2008 12:05:27 PM PDT by willgolfforfood
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To: avacado
advanced Russian-made

These are advanced. Boooooooo-ooooooo-waaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaa...

9 posted on 07/23/2008 12:07:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Triage doesn't deal with people who successfully defend themselves with guns.)
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To: Perdogg
Having had experience with the TALD (Tactical Air Launched Decoys), it seems to me that all that is required is to put radar reflectors on small cruise missiles and saturate their systems. If they fire all of their multi-million dollar S-300s, etc. knocking down cheap decoys, they will be out of arrows and it won't matter what their radars see. In fact, I rather like the idea of them getting a nice clear picture of the strike package coming in, after they've fired off their last round.
10 posted on 07/23/2008 12:08:47 PM PDT by SampleMan (We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
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To: FredZarguna

Like Russian advanced television sets, refrigerators ?


11 posted on 07/23/2008 12:09:25 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Perdogg

On the other had this gives reason to strike before they get set up if the Russians have fixed the Syrian bug.


12 posted on 07/23/2008 12:14:36 PM PDT by McGruff (Either way we're screwed but I'm still voting for McCain)
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To: Perdogg

The “Wall” may be down but the “Cold War” continues.


13 posted on 07/23/2008 12:14:37 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: SolidWood

No they can’t. It was the likes of Debka that gave Syria advanced modern air defense systems. The Israelis took the path of least resistance to the undefended target in the eastern Syrian desert. The Syrians took the gamble on not drawing attention to the facility by positioning air defences around it. They gambled and lost.

The Israeli’s used part of Turkish airspace and skirted through the least defended part of Syria to get to the facility. No Israeli planner is going to endanger or take the risk of putting a strike package through the main areas of the Syrian air defense system.

http://geimint.blogspot.com/2007/09/syrian-sam-network.html


14 posted on 07/23/2008 12:18:29 PM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...
Ping!
15 posted on 07/23/2008 12:21:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: McGruff

There is no Syrian bug. You are falling into the trap of listening to media hype. There is no magic button to take down an entire air defense system.

The likes of SA-10/20 and SA-15s are taken extremely seriously by the likes of the Israelis, U.S. and NATO. The Israeli’s themselves know bitterly through aircraft losses to Russian SAM systems over the years. They don’t take the threat of the latest Russian systems lightly.


16 posted on 07/23/2008 12:29:38 PM PDT by Tommyjo
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To: Perdogg

Good for Iran! They need the best equipment and this is an excellent purchase for them.

They even can ask the Syrians for references.


17 posted on 07/23/2008 12:36:16 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama=Jimmy Carter Part Douche)
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To: Perdogg
Great line from "Good Morning Viet Nam"

Ethel Merman jams Russian radar!

18 posted on 07/23/2008 12:37:54 PM PDT by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: Perdogg

Funny how Russia and Barack Obama have so much in common... They like to have it both ways/take two different stands on the same issue at the same time.

Only recently, there was word out of Moscow that Iran did, in fact need to end the nuclear projects.

Now Russia is going to help protect those same projects.

Hmmmm...


19 posted on 07/23/2008 12:40:47 PM PDT by TheBattman (Vote your conscience, or don't complain about RINOs!)
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To: WilliamWallace1999

What’s that? I count about 46 big ass bombs all at once from one aircraft? KA BOOM Iran.


20 posted on 07/23/2008 12:43:29 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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